Updating COVID-19 News, 3/21/2020: w/Florida Governor DeSantis, 75 Million Americans Ordered To Stay Home
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Illustration of 2019 n-CoV CDC 23312 (aka COVID-19 or Wuhan Coronavirus) (Attribution: CDC/Alissa Eckert MS;Dan Higgins MAM, Presented at: WindermereSun.com)
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For updated global info & data on COVID-19, please click HERE.
For COVID-19 cases and death counts in USA by state, please click HERE.
For COVID-19 cases in Florida, please click HERE.
In the video published on March 21, 2020, “Watch live: Florida Gov. DeSantis gives update on coronavirus“, below:
In the video “WATCH LIVE: Florida governor Ron DeSantis gives coronavirus update – March 20, 2020“, below:
Retail personnel are allowed to wear protective masks. By March 25, 2020, there will be 1.25 million masks available, and by March 28, 2020, another million masks, and by first week of April, there will be a total of 5.95 million masks available. Priority will be to distribute masks to healthcare providers first. 65,000 swabs for diagnostic tests had been received. Governor DeSantis encourages Floridians to observe mandates and be considerate and collaborate. Specific protocols are addressed during 22:35 in the video above.
Connecticut, Illinois and New York joined California on Friday, March 20, 2020, in ordering nonessential workers to remain at home to slow the spread of coronavirus, which means more than 1 in 5 Americans live in a state under general stay-at-home orders, in the video “75 million Americans ordered to stay home“, below:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-NY, discusses the rise in coronavirus cases in his state along with the availability of more testing, why he says fear and anxiety over the virus is worse and why he needs the federal government to step up in this moment, in the video published on March 19, 2020, “Gov. Cuomo: We Need The Federal Government To Step Up, Morning Joe, MSNBC“, below:
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo explains what he and his office are doing to help curb the coronavirus pandemic, in the video published on March 20, 2020, “Gov. Cuomo: This is the best thing we can do to slow the spread of the virus“, below:
In the video published on March 19, 2020, “CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Gov. Newsom provides update on COVID-19 in California://bit.ly/3dcZTvP“, below:
The National Restaurant Association is predicting a loss of $225 billion over the next three months if the crisis continues, meaning around seven million jobs could be lost. The Labor Department says last week it had 281,000 claims for unemployment insurance, a one-third increase from the week before, in the video published on March 19, 2020, “U.S. Cases near 13,000, More Than Half In 10 Counties, NBC Nightly News”, below:
CNN’s Michael Smerconish examines the difficulties law enforcement faces across the US during the coronavirus pandemic. Officers on the front lines of patrolling communities, border security and the added strain on the court system are just some of the problems agencies face during the pandemic, in the video “Challenges of enforcing the law during coronavirus“, below:
President Trump says that the federal government is ‘not a shipping clerk’ and calls on governors to do more, in the video “States, Health Care Workers, Private Sector All Cry Out For Leadership From Trump, Deadline, MSNBC“, below:
As President Trump continues to give misleading information – or lie – about the federal government’s measures to fight coronavirus, mayors, governors and local officials are trying to prepare on their own. Several states ordered residents to stay at home for all but essential trips. Some officials are seeking hotels, dorms, or other spaces to repurpose as hospitals. And others are urging the public to 3-D print or sew protective equipment for healthcare workers, in the video “State, Local Officials Take Coronavirus Action Into Their Own Hands Amid Poor Federal Response“, below:
White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx talks to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about what the federal government is doing to curb the spread of coronavirus in the US, in the video “Dr. Deborah Birx: That data is ‘really quite striking‘”
A very difficult week for America comes to an end with tens of millions told to stay home due to the coronavirus and states pleading with the Trump administration to take immediate action, in the video “U.S. Coronavirus Cases Top 18,000 As States Push Trump To Act, The 11th Hour, MSNBC“, below:
Dr. Rob Davidson, an emergency room physician, tells Ali Velshi that the Trump administration needs to take a national approach in combating the coronavirus pandemic or doctors will have to make difficult decisions about who to treat as hospitalizations rise, in the video “ER Doctor: Trump Is Not Listening To People On The Front Lines’, The Last Word, MSNBC“, below:
Let’s take a look at how our neighbor, Canada, is dealing with COVID-19: The federal government is calling on Canada’s manufacturing companies to join the fight against COVID-19 by ramping up production of vital supplies, like medical supplies. But as Mike Armstrong reports, things aren’t so rosy for a different industry. Meanwhile, the virus has led to the unemployment of thousands of Canadians, and the federal government is racing to mitigate the damage of what may be the worst economic downturn in the country’s history. David Akin reports on how much the federal government’s potential support package could be worth. The U.S. is ramping up its war against COVID-19 by closing its borders with Canada and Mexico to non-essential travel, while lockdowns are in effect in both California and New York. But what about a nationwide lockdown? And what would U.S. President Donald Trump say to Americans who are scared? Jackson Proskow has Trump’s reaction to both of those questions. The British government is also taking drastic measures to help citizens who can’t work due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Redmond Shannon explains what’s being promised. Scores of Canadians working and living abroad are trying in vain to return home, but travel restrictions and bans over COVID-19 have them fearing they’ll be stranded indefinitely. Ross Lord has the calls for help from Canadians stuck in Peru. There’s a worldwide outpour of gratitude for health care workers, who are putting themselves at risk while treating a surge of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eric Sorensen explains how their difficult work is being honored, in the video “Global National: March 20, 2020, Canada surpasses 1,000 cases of COVID-19“, below:
Rachel Maddow reviews the empty promises and overpromises Donald Trump has made about the federal response to the coronavirus crisis and points out that his repeated lies and misinformation are not harmless when the stakes are as high as they are with this epidemic, and the media should consider not airing his press conferences live, in the video “Trump Irresponsible, Dangerous w/Lies & Happy Talk On Fed. Coronavirus Help Rachel Maddow, MSNBC“, below:
Rachel Maddow reports on the raises the alarm to public servants in state government that they need to act quickly and independently because federal help is too slow in coming as coronavirus infections are already filling hospitals in some parts of the country, in the video “States Wait For Federal Help At Their Own Peril As Coronavirus Crisis Builds, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC“, below:
Dr. Esther Choo talks with Rachel Maddow about doctors, nurses, and other health care workers who are struggling to obtain the proper protective gear to administer care to the wave of new coronavirus patients, and the anticipation that continued federal poor planning will mean further shortages in the future, in the video published on March 21, 2020, “Health Care Workers On Their Own Against Coronavirus As Supplies Dwindle, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC“, below:
*Some one should come up with a more efficient design for mask-making machine so that each and every hospital or city may be equipped with at least one or two mask-making machine(s) to supply the need for each hospital or city.
So, let’s all try to stay home as much as possible! As for individual citizens, please wash your hands often (each time for at least 20 seconds, stop shaking hands, be sure to get sufficient rest, be well nourished, exercised, drink plenty of hot water and ginger tea, and decrease unnecessary social contacts.
Some of the basics needed in prepping for potential self-quarantine:
- Hand cleanser (soap & water & hand sanitizer)
- Cleaning products: for cleaning household surfaces such as countertops, faucets, door knobs, drawer pulls, light switches, telephone, handles of brooms, mops, etc., for reference list suggested by CDC, click HERE.)
- Laundry detergent
- Food (at least 3 weeks worth of staples:beans, pasta, rice, canned vegetables, frozen food, canned soup, shelf-stable milk, or dehydrated food, etc.)
- Water (be it in bottled water form or activated carbon filter pitcher and/or distiller)
- Face masks
- Prescription meds (talk to your doctor as to how much of your prescription meds need to be stocked)
- Over-the-counter medicine (acetaminophen, ibuprofen, cough medicine, etc.)
- Thermometer
- Robust WiFi
- Video conferencing services
- Entertainment (check out: Netflix’s Pandemic & Amazon’s Contagion)
- Exercise guides or equipment
You may be interested in these podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/worldaffairs/id101215657
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